Correct Answer - Option 4 : Parushni
The correct answer is Parushni.
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Parushni is the Rigvedic name of the river Ravi.
- The Ravi was known as Purushni or Iravati to Indians in Vedic times and as Hydraotes to the Ancient Greeks.
- The Rig-Veda civilization was centred on the River Saraswati which is now lost in the Deserts of Rajasthan.
- The Ravi River, a transboundary river of India and Pakistan, is an integral part of the Indus River Basin and forms the headwaters of the Indus basin.
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It rises in the Himalayas in Himachal Pradesh state, India, and flows west-northwest past Chamba, turning southwest at the boundary of Jammu and Kashmir state.
- The Sapta Sindhavah play a prominent part in the hymns of the Rig Veda, and consequently in the early Hindu religion.
- Vedic texts have a wide geographical horizon, speaking of oceans, rivers, mountains and deserts.
- The Vedic land is a land of seven rivers flowing into the ocean.
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Central Rivers (rivers of Punjab):
- Vitasta (Jhelum)
- Asikni (Chenab)
- Parusni (Ravi)
- Vipas (Beas)
- Sutudri (Sutlej)
- Marudvrdha